Sightings of
Butterflies in Suffolk - 2024
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The Branch is always grateful for butterfly records and a
recording form can be downloaded from the Recording
page.
We are always interested in
sightings of any butterflies in any location in Suffolk but we are particularly grateful for records away from the
coast and information on the following species:
BAP species; Dingy Skipper,
White Letter Hairstreak,
Silver-studded Blue, White Admiral, Grayling, Small Heath, Wall Brown
Others;
Green Hairstreak, Purple Hairstreak, Silver-washed Fritillary, Purple
Emperor, Chalkhill Blue
(not Devil's Dyke)
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Please include the date, how many of
each butterfly species seen, location
with an ordnance survey grid reference if possible, and your name (if
you want to).
If you would like to contribute to the annual survey
please read the notes on the Recording
page.
If you report a
Brimstone this record will also
be passsed to the Brimstone and Buckthorn
project
Regular recorders are urged to use
this sightings page to inform others of interesting sightings, but please do
continue to send all your records to the county recorder, James
Corton, at the end of
the season. This can be done using a simple Excel spreadsheet
amd an example is on the Recording page (click
here)
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March |
SwT
DS
ES SS LS OT
LW
SW GvW CY B
WB SpW
SH
R MB GK MW
Gr SwF
DgF MF GF HBF SPbF QoSF
WA
PE
RA
PL
P ST
C LT CmB
SC
PH GH
WlH
BH HB
SsB
BA CB
ChB
SB LtB
- Total
species seen 7 |
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photo
click here) |
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16 Mar |
A female Holly Blue
flew through my garden in Saxmundham this morning. Must be the
earliest I have ever seen. |
Saxmundham |
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Bob Turner. |
15 Mar |
One or possibly two cracking male Brimstones along the Mill
Stream near Foxhall Stadium this morning. |
Ipswich |
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Jenny & Gary Plank |
15 Mar |
A very fresh looking Brimstone in our garden this morning |
Flowton |
TM085470 |
Rob Clements |
15 Mar |
Brimstone - first butterfly of the year in garden |
SW Ipswich |
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Richard Perryman |
14 Mar |
A Comma flying in the sun today (14 March) at Flowton. . Very
welcome! |
Flowton |
TM085470 |
Rob Clements |
9 Mar |
Saturday's volunteer session of the Friends of Belstead Brook
Park at Stoke Park Wood LNR - a trailer load of litter!
Depressing, but it felt like spring with brimstones & commas to
cheer us up! (📷
photo
click here) |
Stoke Park Wood LNR |
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Greenways Project |
9 Mar |
In the very welcome sunshine, we had a Brimstone in our Wickham
Market garden. |
Wickham Market |
TM302 563 |
Rob and Kerry Reeve |
9 Mar |
Lots of sunshine today and we were joined by a male Brimstone
and a Red Admiral at home here in Sudbury |
Sudbury |
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Keith Winch |
9 Mar |
Beyton rd, Thurston. My first brimstone (m) |
Thurston |
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Trevor Goodfellow |
9 Mar |
Male brimstone seen in Charsfield around noon today (Sat 9th).
First butterfly of the year for me. |
Charsfield |
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Steve Aylward |
9 Mar |
Two Brimstones flashing around East Bergholt this morning (Records
uploaded to @iRecordWildlife) |
East Bergholt |
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x Mark Nowers |
9 Mar |
1 Brimstone this morning in Laxfield churchyard TM29637249.
1 Brimstone this afternoon in my garden (the Orchards, Laxfield)
TM29307243 |
Laxfield |
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Mike Turton |
9 Mar |
We saw a Comma at Dunwich on the field path parallel to the
deadend lane leading to coast guards. Also a male brimstone in
Homersfield just before noon today. |
Dunwich & Homersfield |
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Sarah Day |
9 Mar |
A single Comma at Mill Stream early this afternoon. (📷
photo
click here) |
Mill Stream |
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Phil Watkinson |
9 Mar |
Comma x 2 (one
tatty and one fresh) Along footpath by River Lark near The
Crankles, Bury St Edmunds at 11:56 |
Bury St Edmunds |
TL 859640 |
David Bird |
8 Mar |
We had this fresh Peacock butterfly, (📷
photo click here), in
Woodbridge Old Cemetery, basking in the sunshine despite a brisk
easterly breeze. |
Woodbridge |
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Rob and Kerry Reeve Steve and Anne Green |
8 Mar |
Two Small tortoiseshell butterflies flying around on the
reserve. Lovely Spring weather here today (8/3) |
RSPB Lakenheath Fen |
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6 Mar |
Just seen or 3rd Butterfly species for this year a Small
Tortoiseshell |
SWT Carlton Marshes |
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b Robert Quadling |
6 Mar |
Comma seen today in my garden at 12.45. |
Ipswich |
TM1644 |
Stella Wolfe |
4 Mar |
Green-veined White seen flying 12pm Northgate High School area
of Ipswich. Photo taken later 3pm (📷
photo
click here) A week earlier than the previous
earliest sighting |
N Ipswich |
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David Clark |
4 Mar |
Just seen our first Brimstone Butterfly a Male near the visitor
centre at 10.38am |
SWT Carlton Marshes |
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b Robert Quadling |
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February |
SwT
DS
ES SS LS OT
LW
SW GvW CY B
WB SpW
SH
R MB GK MW
Gr SwF
DgF MF GF HBF SPbF QoSF
WA
PE
RA
PL
P ST C LT CmB
SC
PH GH
WlH
BH HB
SsB
BA CB
ChB
SB LtB
- Total
species seen 4 |
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24 Feb |
5 deg C and still the sun lured a Peacock out to bask. |
Thurston |
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Trevor Goodfellow |
15 Feb |
Spring arrived on the reserve with a bang when we spotted
a Peacock butterfly in Brandon Fen, then a female Brimstone
around the Visitor Centre. |
RSPB Lakenheath Fen |
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x RSPB Lakenheath Fen |
15 Feb |
Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Brimstone |
Lound Lakes |
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x SWT |
15 Feb |
We had a male Brimstone butterfly in our garden this morning |
Wickham Market |
TM302 563 |
Rob and Kerry Reeve |
15 Feb |
Have just seen a male Brimstone emerge from a thick ivy bush,
11.45am |
Little Bealings, Nr Woodbridge |
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Peter Woolley |
12 Feb |
Red Admiral flew through the garden mid-morning. |
Waldringfield |
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Peter Maddison |
11 Feb |
My first sighting of this year; a red admiral in my garden
Nightingale Rd at 11,33 am today |
Ipswich |
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Peter Compton |
10 Feb |
We had a Red Admiral visit us today. |
Sudbury |
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Keith Winch |
6 Feb |
We had a Hummingbird Hawkmoth
visit our Stowmarket garden Mahonia (📷
photo
click here) |
Stowmarket |
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Margie & David Carter |
5 Feb |
Today a Red admiral was flying along old railway at North
Warren. |
North Warren |
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Bob Turner |
3 Feb |
Red Admiral free flying., feeding on Viburnam |
Trimley St Martin |
TM275379 |
Sue Biddle |
2 Feb |
A Peacock butterfly became the first butterfly of the year in
our garden today. |
Wickham Market |
TM302 563 |
Rob and Kerry Reeve |
1 Feb |
We have our first reported sighting this year of a Peacock
Butterfly on the 1/2/24 by the octagon along Share Marsh path |
SWT Carlton Marshes |
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Robert Quadling |
1 Feb |
Early Peacock (📷
photo
click here) |
Lake Lothing |
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Carl Buttle |
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January |
SwT
DS
ES SS LS OT
LW
SW GvW CY B
WB SpW
SH
R MB GK MW
Gr SwF
DgF MF GF HBF SPbF QoSF
WA
PE
RA
PL
P ST C LT CmB
SC
PH GH
WlH
BH HB
SsB
BA CB
ChB
SB LtB
- Total
species seen 4 |
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(📷
photo
click here) |
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28 Jan |
Our walk today at Henstead. Highlights:
Small Tortoiseshell
Butterfly |
Henstead |
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Jane ferguson |
19 Jan |
Was very surprised to see my first butterfly of the year this
morning. It was a Red Admiral on the wing at approximately
10.30am in the car park of the Coach House Hotel |
Carlton Coalville |
NR33 8BL |
Craig Fulcher |
16 Jan |
Very surprised to see a Peacock butterfly at North Warren,
Aldeburgh this lunchtime flying about in the vegetation. |
North Warren |
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Sarah Chamberlain |
16 Jan |
My first butterfly of the year this morning a single
Brimstone in
minus one degree temperature but bright sunshine - Sandlings
Local Nature Reserve |
Rushmere St.Andrew |
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Bryan Wright |
4 Jan |
Just seen my first Butterfly of 2024 a
Red Admiral in the Suffolk Sands holiday
park Felixstowe IP11 2TS |
Felixstowe |
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William Brame |
3 Jan |
1pm today, a Peacock
landed on my window sill. I wonder if last nights storm
interrupted it's hibernation ? |
Rushmere St Andrew |
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Phil Watkinson |
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